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Description: | IU, unmounted inscr. on plate b. l. "Guercino del."; inscr. in pencil outside plate t. r. "60" CRE DALTON, Richard; (Italian; 1715-1791) AFTER GUERCINO, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, (Italian; 1591-1666) PUB DALTON, Richard (1715-1791) This volume is part of William Hunter's bequest. The prints were commissioned by Richard Dalton, Librarian to George III, in the 1760s. They focus on the King's unrivalled collection of more than 800 drawings by Guercino, largely assembled by Dalton on visits made to Italy to enrich his royal patron's art holdings. The volume promoted the Royal Collection and served the market for prints after Guercino who was particularly popular among eighteenth-century English connoisseurs. While most were etched by Bartolozzi, hailed as Italy's best engraver, Dalton did etch seven of the plates himself. His prints are inferior to Bartolozzi's.
Guercino took pleasure in studying the human figure and he used his studies to create character types which could then be used as templates in different compositions. In the original drawing there are two birds, one in a cage which has an open door. Guercino often experimented with positioning a figure with their back to the viewer. The drawing is now attributed to one of the school of Guercino and has not been connected to any known painting. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : WINDSOR : DRAWING : WOMAN : IMITATION : HUNTER VOLUME : BAROQUE : ROYAL COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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